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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in digital education technology enable students in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a growing need to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these important new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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